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As I look at the hundreds of links bookmarked over the years of browsing, I am stunned how can this be useful to anyone. It’s a mess - broken links, links relevant only for that time, useless user guides, pointless references. There’s hardly anything useful in here.

My bookmarks are a mess, but as I find stuff I want to follow up on, or fill up a window with tabs, I put it in rough categories or folders of a single "story". Then when I'm looking for something to read, I dig thru them.

@matigo That's more a problem of Mozilla's ongoing disaster. My Safari bookmarks have been good for 13 years? And before that I ported them over from Mozilla. Used to use a bookmark cleaner, Bookdog? But now my old folders are full of junk.

@amit If only search engines would give recency some standing in their algorithms. Far too often something seems to be about what I am looking for but dates back 10 years or more and is no longer even relevant.

@amit I just have some bookmarks for daily use for websites I do not want to be opened all the time; all the rest goes to Pinboard that archives the pages for me. So even if a link is broken or a website does not exist anymore I still can find the content @matigo

@amit My blog is using Known so I'm just creating a bookmark type post and setting it private. I've also got a microsub server Aperture set as syndication endpoint and send it there to a Read Later channel

@njr I find it really interesting how Pinboard is slowly becoming a bookmarking service of choice for many. My problem with external services is it needs to be an explicit search for a link of interest. Typically that’s not what I want. I just can’t find these “saved” links useful.

@grib Good. I have neither worked out the bookmark posts nor the private posts for my site yet. And I really like the idea of bookmark posts being private. Really don’t think such posts flooding the publicly visible site is a good experience.

@amit My blog is using Known so I'm just creating a bookmark type post and setting it private. I've also got a microsub server Aperture set as syndication endpoint and send it there to a Read Later channel

@amit Sure. If I’m understanding you correctly, it's certainly true that the key to using Pinboard or any of the other del.icio.us derivatives is to use tags carefully. With good tagging, I can find things in those bookmarks really quickly. But it's not for everyone.

@amit Pinboard is a very worthy successor to del.icio.us (which it has now acquired) and has the same API and almost all the features except being able to send links. Private by default is an option too, so it could suit.

@amit Personally, I like tags so much I was involved in a start-up (Fluidinfo) building a whole database out of them, and seem to be attempting to rebuild it as a distributed online DB myself now. Overview: njr.radcliffe0.com/microdb-b...

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